Visarg Desai
Staff Software Engineer - SDE 4 at Portkey
Surat, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolVisarg Desai is a Staff Software Engineer with six years of experience building backend-first, microservices-based systems for consumer platforms. He progressed rapidly from full-stack roles at early-stage startups to SDE-4 responsibilities at Portkey, shipping scalable Node.js services on AWS with MySQL and Redis. His background includes real-time features—calling, chat, and live streaming—plus integrations with Firebase, Pusher and analytics tooling, showing a strong focus on realtime and operational observability. Comfortable across backend and frontend, he has hands-on experience launching consumer apps and internal dashboards using React and React Native. A community-minded technologist, he has led developer clubs and trained peers in Git, cloud and fundamentals, which complements his pragmatic engineering leadership. Notably, he combines rapid product iteration experience from early-stage teams with the architectural discipline needed to run production microservices.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer science and engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer science and engineering at R. N. G. Patel Institute of Technology-RNGPIT (An Autonomous Institute U/s UGC Act 1956)
Github Skills (30)
langchain10
router10
prompt-engineering10
openai10
gateway10
llmops10
generative-ai10
llama-index10
mlops8
euler6
yaml5
dice4
r4
mathematics4
java4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Portkey-AI/gateway
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A blazing fast AI Gateway with integrated guardrails. Route to 200+ LLMs, 50+ AI Guardrails with 1 fast & friendly API.
Contributions:50 releases, 386 reviews, 629 PRs in 1 year 7 months
ai-gatewaygatewaygenerative-ailangchainllama-index
Portkey-AI/mustache
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 months
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